# Muhammad

- Id: `muhammad`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/muhammad/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `b17b8a7fa4548a929971a25713abbd3b714371432e707f754fe448723c60b7eb`

## Summary

A seventh-century Arabian preacher and the founding figure of Islam, Muhammad is known through the Qur’an and distinct, often later traditions.

## Overview

Muhammad died in 632 CE. The admitted dialogue corpus currently contains the Qur'an only; later sira, hadith and scholarship remain outside this persona memory.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "c. 570–632 CE",
    "era": "Early Middle Ages",
    "distance": "about 1,394–1,456 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 62
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "islam",
    "name": "Islam",
    "detail": "Islam",
    "labels": [
        "Islam"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 632,
    "display": "632 CE",
    "reason": "Muhammad died in 632 CE. The admitted dialogue corpus currently contains the Qur'an only; later sira, hadith and scholarship remain outside this persona memory."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 6236,
    "languages": [
        "ar",
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Mecca",
        "period": "c. 570-622; 630-632 CE",
        "description": "Birth, early preaching and later return; details depend on separated source layers.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad"
    },
    {
        "name": "Ta'if",
        "period": "traditional c. 619-620 CE",
        "description": "Journey preserved in sira tradition and kept distinct from the Qur'anic corpus.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad"
    },
    {
        "name": "Medina / Yathrib",
        "period": "622-632 CE",
        "description": "Hijra destination and center of the Medinan community.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad"
    },
    {
        "name": "Hudaybiyyah",
        "period": "628 CE",
        "description": "Treaty setting in early Islamic historical tradition.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad"
    },
    {
        "name": "Badr",
        "period": "624 CE",
        "description": "Battle and expedition setting in early Islamic historical tradition, kept distinct from Qur'anic persona knowledge.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad"
    },
    {
        "name": "Uhud",
        "period": "625 CE",
        "description": "Campaign setting in early Islamic historical tradition.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad"
    },
    {
        "name": "Khaybar",
        "period": "628 CE",
        "description": "Expedition setting in sira and early historical traditions.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad"
    },
    {
        "name": "Tabuk",
        "period": "630 CE",
        "description": "Northern expedition terminus in early Islamic historical tradition.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad"
    }
]
```